TY - GEN AU - Buchanan, Richard and others TI - Designed world images, objects, environments SN - 9781847885852 U1 - 745.2 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford PB - Berg publishers N1 - CONTENTS Editors' Biographies Authors' Biographies General Introduction PART I: CONCEPTUALIZATION Introduction 7 1. Branzi's Dilemma: Design in Contemporary Culture 13 Richard Buchanan 2. Designing the Artificial: An Interdisciplinary Study 28 Massimo Negrotti " " 3. A Scenario for Design 37 Wolfgang Jonas 4. Information and Reality at the Turn of the Century 53 Albert Borgmann 5. Thorstein Veblen at the University of Chicago and the Socialization of Aesthetics 61 Ellen Mazur Thomson 6. Adolf Eoos and the Aphoristic Style: Rhetorical Practice in Early Twentieth-Century 72 Design Criticism John V. Maciuika 1, The Things That Matter 83 Peter-Paul Verbeek and Petran Kockelkoren 8. Domestication of Everyday Life Technology: Dynamic Views on the Social Histories 95 of Artifacts Mika Pantzar 9. Environmental Design and Industrial Design: Integrating Knowledge Around 108 Urgent Issues Medardo Chiapponi Further Reading for Part I 117 PART II: FABRICATION Section 1: The Design Process and New Domains of Practice 119 Introduction to Section 1 121 10. Simulated Seas: Exhibition Design in Contemporary Aquariums 123 Dennis Doordan 11. The Arts of War: "Visual Presentation" and National Intelligence 131 Barry Katz 12. "This is my Brain Book": Day-Timers and Expedient Design 149 Sara K. Schneider 13. The Design of the Connection Machine 155 Tamiko Thiel 14. Accidental Machines: The Impact of Popular Participation in Computer Technology 167 Michael Punt 15. Typography and the Screen: A Technical Chronology of Digital Typography, 1984—1997 188 Loretta Staples Further Reading for Part II, Section 1 205 Section 2: The Design Process and the Social Meaning of Things 207 Introduction to Section 2 209 16. History from Things: Notes on the History of Industrial Design 211 Raimonda Riccini 17. Olympus and the Marketplace: Reyner Banham and Design Criticism 228 Nigel Whiteley 18. Visibility in Progress Giovanni Anceschi 238 19. Softening Up the Facts: Engineers in Design Meetings 247 Peter Lloyd and Jerry Busby 20. Fourth-Order Design: A Practical Perspective 260 Tony Golsby-Smith Further Reading for Part II, Section 2 277 PART III: EVALUATION Introduction 281 21. It's a Nice World After All: The Vision of "Difference" in Colors 285 Ann Tyler 22 Design, Environment, and Social Quality: From Existenzminimum to 300 "Quality Maximum" Ezio Manzini 23. Values in Design: Existenzminimum, "Maximum Quality," and "Optimal Balance" 306 John Hirst 24. Science, Semiotics, and Society: The Ulm Hochschule fiir Gestaltung in Retrospect 314 Paul Betts 25. Ecological Design: A New Critique 328 Pauline Madge 26. Biophilia and Technophilia: Examining the Nature/Culture Split in Design Theory 339 David Stairs 27. Ethics, Aesthetics, and Design 346 Alain Findeli Further Reading for Part HI 365 General Bibliography 367 Index 369 ER -